| 词汇 | retrenching |
| 释义 | retrenching present participle ofretrench retrench verb uk /rɪˈtrentʃ/ us /rɪˈtrentʃ/ [ I ]formal If governments, companies, etc. retrench, they start spending less money, or reducing costs: 削减费用;紧缩开支 The company had to retrench because of falling orders.由于订单减少，这家公司不得不紧缩开支。 The Government began to retrench on its nuclear programmes. [ T ]Australian English or South African English to remove a worker from his or her job as a way of reducing costs: 裁减工人（以节约成本） The government is to retrench 30,000 public servants in the next three years. An employee you retrenched may be able to bring an unfair dismissal claim. North Carolina is not retrenching on its spending on education. The president had planned to take more lavish offices but was forced to retrench amid criticism from Congress and the public. In 2011 some people were retrenched. A New South Wales cleaning contractor retrenched an employee using a standard retrenchment letter. Economics accommodative anti-economic anti-inflation anti-inflationary anti-recession deindustrialization double-dip gross domestic product HDI human development index industrialism inflation Keynesian liberal monetarism monetary recession retrench stagflation the public purse You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Firing staff Examples of retrenchingretrenching In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is a time not for retrenching but for generous, far-seeing statesmanship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would then at some indeterminate point of time be faced with the necessity of retrenching again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many social services departments are experiencing large funding gaps, which means that they are retrenching many of the services that they might offer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the old business of retrenching, saving and economising in any way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a pity that throughout the world at the moment everyone is retrenching on aid to developing countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are heading for a shortage of milk and a retrenching agricultural industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we can all notice that the life of luxury is extending rather than retrenching. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was driven by households retrenching and building up their savings as boom and bust destroyed confidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How will the selling-off process be a developing process if the private sector that he is relying on is in fact retrenching and not developing? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Like many other industries, farmers are retrenching. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The church is now retrenching after its period of high growth and hundreds of units have been decommissioned since 1998. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Economic pressures forced three years of retrenching. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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